60 Best Christmas Quotes of All Time | Joyous Lines & Sayings

Last modified: May 28, 2018

An established Christian celebration and a time of gratitude and forgiveness, Christmas has also turned into a universally accepted holiday season – and, admittedly, a time for the shopping spree of the year! Such a big event is inevitably food for thought and a great opportunity for commentators to comment on and for writers to write about. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States said about Christmas: “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”

This collection of famous quotes about Christmas spans a range of moods from funny to inspirational lines, from joyous to cute words by writers, comedians, presenters and other celebrities. When holiday season is close, many of these quotes will come in handy when in need for something smart to read, send or share.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. George Carlin. Merry Christmas!

Funny Christmas Quotes

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. George Carlin

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.Jay Leno

Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket. Craig Ferguson

At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional. Robert Godden

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious. Craig Ferguson

There has been only one Christmas — the rest are anniversaries. W. J. Cameron

Joyous Christmas Quotes

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas;
Soon the bells will start,
And the thing that will make them ring
Is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart.Meredith Willson

Christmas gift suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. Oren Arnold. Merry Christmas!

Christmas gift suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. Oren Arnold

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. Peg Bracken

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. W.T. Ellis

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. Janice Maeditere

Inspirational Christmas Quotes

How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts! Benjamin Franklin

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you. Steve Maraboli

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? Bob Hope

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? Bob Hope

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale

Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the weaknesses and lonliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and to ask yourself if you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear on their hearts; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thougts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open? Are you willing to do these things for a day? Then you are ready to keep Christmas! Henry Van Dyke

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you. Steve Maraboli. Merry Christmas!

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. Hamilton Wright Mabie

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood. Richard Paul Evans

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. Andy Rooney

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world. Norman Vincent Peale

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. Hamilton Wright Mabie

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. Robert Lynd

Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. Thomas Merton

To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can’t save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I’ve stumbled upon the very freedom I’ve longed for in the very place I’d least expected it. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree. Charlotte Carpenter

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’. Bing Crosby

Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good. Charles Dickens

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself. Nick Hornby

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world. Winston Churchill

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected. Samuel Johnson

Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. Pope John XXIII

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith

Good news from heaven the angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
To crown us with the joy of heaven.Martin Luther

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year — and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. W.J. Cameron

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. Eric Sevareid

Cute Christmas Quotes

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day. Helen Steiner Rice

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world. Calvin Coolidge

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. Larry Wilde

One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child. Hark Herald Sarmiento

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together. Rosie Thomas

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. Harlan Miller

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. Eva K. Logue

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence. Joan Mills

During Christmas, open your heart with love to appreciate the beauty of life and all the presents that you have received from the earth. Debasish Mridha

To see the first sun rise in New Year is the most sacredness of existence. Lailah Gifty Akita

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. Francis C. Farley

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! Hamilton Wright Mabie

Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby

Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home. Carol Nelson